http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/business/media/10audio.html
Interestingly i nearly stopped listening to music. It was a special thing in the past . I don't feel so anymore ; weird ! :(
I don't go crazy about sound quality but I do generally pick higher quality bitrates then most people when converting cd's over. Afterall you have what, 32 gigs or so on most models? Go for a lil more quality over those people who just fill it up with a ton of music with horrible quality and wont listen to half of them. I would consider doing lossless formats if more players would support them better.
Another big factor is everyone uses crap for headphones/speakers, so the quality of the compression doesn't matter since the headphone will introduce bad sound anyways. I do have some very spiffy headphones ;)
I generally am listening to music almost all day. I have both a pandora and napster subscription. Pandora for when I'm feeling like finding a new artist or just having random music I don't have to pick since its pretty good at finding stuff. Sure it has some horrible picks, and it seems to have thumbs upped a TON of songs I know ive never listened to or would NEVER thumb up.. but whatever. Maybe I left it open somewhere and someone else did... /shrug. Napster is more for when I'm wanting to pick and choose a playlist, and I also use it to get 5 songs/month.
But at work I can listen to music, at home I do, when on campus between classes, etc.
my ears aren't that fine-tuned as well, the mp3's on my ipod sound just as good as the songs on CD
I usually pay much attention to bitrates and quality since I use good headphones to listen to music. Not the 300€ high-end stuff but advanced enough to be annoyed by even slightly bad compression.
Quote from: Kadri on May 11, 2010, 08:08:19 AM
Interestingly i nearly stopped listening to music. It was a special thing in the past . I don't feel so anymore ; weird ! :(
Audio requires less bandwidth than Graphics relative to the human brain's ability to process it. When push
comes to shove, audio was trimmed back to provide more bandwidth for vision.
Quote from: PabloMack on May 11, 2010, 12:52:31 PM
Quote from: Kadri on May 11, 2010, 08:08:19 AM
Interestingly i nearly stopped listening to music. It was a special thing in the past . I don't feel so anymore ; weird ! :(
Audio requires less bandwidth than Graphics relative to the human brain's ability to process it. When push
comes to shove, audio was trimmed back to provide more bandwidth for vision.
I think you have to take a break from programing and 3D too ! LOL ;D